Derek Dashwood

To possess diamonds is to feel you have life well under hand. To feel rich is to feel free.

You operate in diamonds as they are, well, so brilliant. Unlike the gas or oil man, you shine up well.

As progress often gets ahead of our understanding of what was there before, much is lost daily in our plunge to the future, blind to the vanishing past.

How heart warming to see and hear American soldiers being diverted from Iraq to give food aid and child care in famine areas before coming home. Brilliant!

Tribal jewelry and precious artifacts everywhere are disappearing, or being destroyed under heavy machinery to extract resources for an ever hungry world.

Chinese antiques are exquisitly crafted artifacts from a glorious past. Modern China, in contrast, spews out noxious fumes to create cheap goods and acts the bully.

Chinese antiques were carefully created over eons. Modern China makes cheap goods with dollar an hour labor, beats monks, pollutes. 1936 Berlin Olympics?

The exquisite Chinese antiques of long ago were lovingly crafted into a Ming vase for a noble; today's coal factories belch out copies we all line up to buy.

Chinese celebrations always include many people under a paper dragon skin, all weaving, much fireworks and smoke. China is now mother earth's fire and CO2 smoke breathing dragon king. We all need to turn off the smoke machines.

Examples of happiness as being deeper than self gratification can be seen in the lifestyles between more God loving democratic Greece with self centered Romans with horses as gods.